Do you agree that a levels are harder than uni?

and a day ago you got into UCL for medicine with ABBB ... LOL

and a day ago you got into UCL for medicine with ABBB ... LOL

I've also completed a Psychology degree and I think it depends on the way you look at it. I took the IB at sixth form and I do feel like it was harder than my degree because of the workload and stress which comes with it.That being said the IB meant I had to take a Science. Studying Biology prior to my degree definitely prepared me for the sciencey aspects of Psych.

Overall, I just found my degree was a more manageable workload compared to the IB.

I think a lot of people find there is quite a jump from GCSE's to A levels, whereas the jump from A levels to a degree (depending on subject) is smaller. Also, your first year of university tends to be ungraded so you can get away with doing minimal work. That's probably why a lot of people say they find their degree easier than A levels.

My Chemistry teacher said that A-levels are easier than degrees however with A levels you have less time.

I did biology A-level and again it's a walk in the park compared to degree level 🙈

The main thing with degree level is the standards. You can easily get a 90 at A-level if you repeat back what you learned. I remember A-level Psychology just involved describing a study, and then giving some good and bad methodological points. It was like a recipe, once you got it, it was so easy.

Degree level is different, because a 90 at degree level means that it's worthy of publication in an academic journal. So to me, the standards alone make it harder.

In order to get a 70 (a First) you have to go beyond what you were taught and add something original. So for every lecture you'd have a chapter or several journal articles for required reading, then you had to find your own reading that will be different but still relevant on top of that in order to get a First. To this day I still don't know how people manage to squeeze all that in.

I remember the first thing my lecturer said at uni was to try and forget the way you were taught Psychology at A-level, in reality it's a lot more complicated.

I wasn't calling bs to you, but to her, because she's given a completely wrong expectation of what a psychology degree is like.

That's cool, best of luck with your endeavours!!

After doing 1 year at uni I think A levels are harder. But I didn't find A level Geography, what my degree is in, hard because I enjoyed it so got an A. I found A level Biology hard and hated it. I liked AS biology but hated the A2 content and had no friends in my class so didn't like it at all and did rubbish with a D. I found English Language not 'hard' but very boring.
(I found my AS General Studies easy and got an A)

I believe whether you find something hard or not is down to how much you enjoy it when it comes to academics

I didn't have a very nice time at sixth form and was in a bad place. I moved so didn't know anyone in the area when I started. I was stabbed in the back by the snakes who I initially tried to be friends with.That place was not for me as the people were very different and snobby compared to those in my secondary school. I believe me being miserable there contributed to me not achieving my full potential. I am so much happier at uni with real friends so am doing much better

I can relate - I'm resitting and I hate myself for it.

What grades did you get overall?

I am curious to see how you were stabbed in the back, any chance you could share more of that information?

Don't hate yourself for resitting I'm sure it will pay off. I could have resat with different subjects but couldn't bare the thought of staying an extra year in that sixth form lol I wasn't eating enough as it was my bmi was 15.

At AS I got AACC . At A2 I got ACD, dropped down a grade in Biology. This has left me with an OK university and disappointed parents.

Basically they were friendly at first then turned sour for no specific reason towards me and my real friend. They'd do cringey friendship speeches - not including us, stopped inviting us to everything, would glare at us from across the table, they'd be generally rude towards us "um, you're kind of in the way" was said when trying to get past me instead of a simple "excuse me" like any decent person would say. This was put up with till after Christmas because we didn't really have anyone else to sit with who we 'knew'. Anyway after Christmas we found some other people to sit with and we ended up good friends with 2 of them. So I basically felt very alone and like an outsider a lot of the time. Being in a place where you're the only one with a different accent can be daunting. I might as well have been foreign haha. Very different to secondary school were I had a lot of friends.

I think gcse's were harder that A levels because there was just so many of them. Then I feel like uni first year was easier than a levels but after that (2nd and 3rd year) uni was the most testing of the lot.